Monument record MDO5831 - Bowl barrow, Long Crichel

A bowl barrow located to the west of Thickthorn Wood, one of a roughly linear group of three located just on the Long Crichel side of the parish boundary with Tarrant Hinton.
RCHME fieldwork recorded the barrow as a mound 55 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, with some damage caused by digging on the northwest side.

(ST 95691229:ST 95671226) Tumuli (NR) <2>

Three barrows lie W. of Thickthorn Wood, almost on the parish boundary with Tarrant Hinton
(A) Bowl (95681221); diam. 20 ft., ht. under 1 ft.
(B) Bowl (95681226), damaged by digging on the N.W. side; diam. 55 ft., ht. 4 ft.
(C) Bowl (95701229), damaged by a modern track; diam. 40 ft., ht. 1 ft. <4>

Bowl barrow at NGR ST 9568 1226 is a scheduled monument. <5>

Note:
Three barrows were originally recorded under the NMR ST 91 SE 40. Subsequently two of the barrows have since been allocated their own NMRs: ST 91 SE 164 and ST 91 SE 165. The third barrow (this one) has kept the NMR ST 91 SE 40 and is the barrow identified as ‘B’ above.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, p118 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/091 RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East) (Unpublished document). SDO18032.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 40 (Monograph). SDO129.

<5> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 05/03/1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210070 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:17PM